Word: indians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thanksgiving Day the President worked alone over the drafts of two major speeches he will deliver to the Indian Parliament in New Delhi and at the opening of the U.S. exhibit at New Delhi's World Agricultural Fair. Draft writer: Kevin McCann, president of Ohio's Defiance College and author of Ike's 1952 campaign biography, Man from Abilene. The theme was the theme that led the President to seek a second term: the quest for peace and for the goals that free nations share and should share. He skipped Thanksgiving services (Mamie went on alone...
...will not be worth it." He taunted those opponents who challenged his qualifications with the acid remark that government ministers, "rightly or wrongly, are not appointed by the opposition." Krishna Menon told Parliament that troop movements toward the border, "consistent with our resources," had taken place, and boasted that Indian armament production had nearly doubled since...
INDIA A Letter for Chou In New Delhi last week, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru gave a last reading to his note to China's Chou Enlai, signed it and dispatched it to Peking. It was a strong answer. Nehru firmly rejected Chou's proposal that both Indian and Chinese troops withdraw 12 ½ miles from their present positions, which, in the cases of Ladakh and Longju, are deep inside Indian territory...
Instead, Nehru made a counterproposal of his own, suggesting to the Chinese that the proper course "would be for you to withdraw from Longju" on India's northeastern frontier, and pledging that Indian troops would not then reoccupy the border post. As for Ladakh, in Kashmir, where the Chinese have seized some 9,000 square miles of Indian territory, Nehru proposed that Indian troops pull back to the west of the line that China claims is the boundary, while Chinese troops retire to the east of the line claimed by India...
Looking up from their reed-laced duck-blind, the two hunters saw a Chippewa Indian guide splashing toward them through the frozen marsh. "Man is shot!" he shouted. "An accident! An accident!" The two men hurried to another blind, 300 yds. away, where they came on a hunter's nightmare. On the rough hummock, Harry W. Anderson, 67, retired vice president of General Motors, lay dying, a gaping wound in the back of his head. Over his body crouched Harlow Curtice, 66, onetime General Motors president (TIME, Jan. 2, 1956), in a state of trembling shock...